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July 11, 2020

The Struggle for No Police in the Los Angeles Schools: a Great Leap Forward and Victory is in Sight

Eric Mann CounterPunch

The anger, pain, and determination of the Black community, the Latinx community, and all people of goodwill cannot be denied. There will be other votes and our movement is on the case. Victory is closer every day. No Police in the LAUSD Schools Now.

July 10, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | July 10, 2020

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The Myth of De Facto Segregation. John Prine | Some Humans Ain't Human. Irresistible | Movie. Jesus Sets the Record Straight. Hot Take Crew Ballistic Over Supreme Court's Trump Tax Returns Ruling.

The Myth of De Facto Segregation

July 10, 2020

‘The racial segregation in every metropolitan area in this country was created by racially explicit government policy, designed to create racial boundaries.’

John Prine | Some Humans Ain't Human

July 10, 2020

John Prine singing "Some Humans Ain't Human" off of his 2005 album "Fair & Square"

Irresistible | Movie

July 10, 2020

Get ready for the most irresistible comedy event of the summer. From writer/director Jon Stewart, the world premiere of #Irresistible is now in theaters and on demand

Amazing Waste. Jesus Sets the Record Straight.

July 10, 2020

Some evangelicals believe Trump is God’s chosen one. Jesus felt compelled to set the record straight.

Hot Take Crew Ballistic Over Supreme Court's Trump Tax Returns Ruling

July 10, 2020

The Supreme Court's rulings on Trump's tax returns and religious exemptions inspire Tyler Templeton to create the new church Our Lady of Hot Take. #TooningOut

July 10, 2020

After the End of Native Mascots

Nick Martin The New Republic

Once the slurs and caricatures are gone, we're left to reconcile the erasure, tokenization, and colonization that exist beyond them

July 10, 2020

Biden’s New Economic Nationalism: Better Than You May Think

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect

And some of it seems to have been inspired by Elizabeth Warren

July 10, 2020

Undercover Patriots

Danny Sjursen Tom Dispatch

The imperial power that we veterans fought for abroad is the same one some of us are now struggling against at home and the two couldn’t be more intimately linked. Our struggle is, at least in part, over who gets to define patriotism.